Chapel, Charles Edward, 1904-1967
Biography
Charles Edward Chapel was born on May 16, 1904 in Manchester, Iowa. He studied at the University of Missouri and later at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. He saw active service in Panama, Cuba, Nicaragua, the Philippines, and China. Chapel was a writer who wrote about a variety of subjects such as aviation and forensics, as well as firearms. Publications include "Gun Collecting" (1939), "The Gun Collector's Handbook of Values" (1940) and "Guns of the Old West." Chapel died on February 20, 1967.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Charles Edward Chapel typescripts
Collection
Identifier: MS-202
MS-202
Date(s):
1939; 1940
Abstract
Charles Edward Chapel (1904-1967), politician and writer. The collection contains the typescripts with printer's notations of his books "Fingerprinting" (1940) and "Gun Collecting" (1939.)